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Using this new cluster of needs, we started to discuss 'food' the first group of similar needs in more detail, meaning that we collected ways to satisfy this need, followed by the implications, requirements and obstacles to every way in specific.
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- Successful communication / deep exchange of thoughts / mutual understanding → Recognition of my personality / loving and being loved
- Spending life in the company of people, who share similar values and goals
- Interaction / contact / love
- Structure / clarity / stability in thought and action
- Continuance - to not have to create the same thing over and over again
- Physical action
- Movement
- Freedom of personal movement and evolvement
- Purposeful work
- Use of time, that makes sense (pursue goals)
- Learning and experiencing new things
- Create inspiration
- Balance between work and play (contribute with my skills)(waiting for Matthias to decipher his handwriting for me...)
- Variety and constant advancement
- Being happy / being content / fulfillment
- Harmony
- Safety due to inner forces
- Fun / excitement
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- Goal-oriented and value-driven action
- Openness / honesty
- Criticism (because recognition distribution works by itself...)
- Collaboration
- Realization of ideas (together with other people)
- Mindfulness
- Clarity / confusion / creativity
- Freedom
- To ease suffering (of me and others)
- Safety from external forces
- Convenience → internet / electricity / comfyness / pleasure
Proceeding with a group of similar needs
The first group of similar needs we addressed was 'food'. Unfortunately nobody took a picture of what we wrote down in this context, so the specifics are lost. Nevertheless, This is a try to reconstruct the most important points from the memory:
Ways to satisfy the need for food:
- farming
- foodsharing
- dumpster diving
- 'eating' light
- buying
- stealing
We then started to talk about buying and stealing first - and that already took a long time. The main points of the discussion were the following:
- Buying food creates demand, which supports the current system.
- Stealing also does, because the stores calculate with some amount of theft.
- If you're not dependent on stealing, you shouldn't do it because the enforced security will make it more difficult for people actually knowing no other way of nourishing themselves.
- In the logic of the current system stealing is unfair and will result in people being angry with you, because you took 'what is theirs'. This will not create understanding.
- A big theft, that results in a public distribution, however, could be an effective form of direct action - one that brings you in conflict with the police, that is.
- Buying good food can support producers of good food - but always in the limits of the status quo.
- Foodsharing and dumpster diving are no ways of changing the system, they are only methods to make use of what is already there.
- Farming is the only future-proof way to go and should always be the long-term goal.
- 'Eating' light is something that some believe is possible if one trains and meditates enough, while others think of it as pure bullshit...
This was in-depth... and already took over an hour.
Struggle with the process
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